Upper Elementary

Dingle Elementary

Started 15 years ago, the Dingle garden is an oasis of insects, seedlings, weeds, flowers, vegetables, and children. Yet the reality of food scarcity and poverty has made the garden more than a place of beauty: in the last two years it has evolved into a place of nutrition and agricultural studies for children. Now the garden is a place where children meet weekly to plant seedlings, observe plant growth, and finally, harvest the food they've grown to deliver and serve in the cafeteria. Over time we hope that students will bring all this knowledge of healthy eating back home.

Grandview Public School

We believe there is a positive impact of authentic outdoor garden on student engagement and social skill development.
A garden at Grandview Public School would help us with many aspects of our curriculum including Healthy Living, Science, Social Studies, Math, Language and Art. Aswell, it would encourage social and emotional development.
This garden would not only provide many learning opportunities to cover the Ontario curriculum but would allow for:
• Differentiating instruction within our learning environments
• Make authentic learning situations

Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter Scho

Laupahoehoe has been home for 130 years to a historic school system that has served the agricultural communities of North Hilo and Hamakua districts of windward Hawaii Island. Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter School (LCPCS) has developed a robust Farm to School program with the goal to connect students to healthy locally sourced foods through the cafeteria food programs, classrooms, and agriculture projects. This year we will expand our farm to school program garden and implement our “environmental food awareness project”.

Sequoia Academics and Arts Charter School

Considering that we currently have a garden but it has not been successful, we realized that we did not have a mission initially. Our mission is to, 1) develop children’s understanding of vegetable production, 2) raise children’s interest in a more varied diet, 3) help children to learn to produce vegetables, 4) produce foods appreciated by our families and students, 5) provide opportunities for our students to consume the vegetables they produce, 6) encourage children to acquire attitudes of cooperation, responsibility, self-esteem, motivation and the value of work.

The New School of Lancaster

New School of Lancaster students are dirt-and-life-loving, curious young people who are eager to plant and savor vegetables and fruits from our school grounds. We are building food-growing and soil-growing spaces that can be used by all the students in our PreK-8 school.

Frank Paul Elementary School

The goal of the garden is to involve children in the study of the butterfly life cycle, the creation of a butterfly garden, and a conceptual understanding the life cycle of butterflies.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary School

The school garden provides a green space; increases access to healthy, fresh, local food in a low-income neighborhood; provides a healthy activity for children to engage around during recess and lunch break; and has been the focal point for food, garden, and environmental-focused education for the past several years, mainly through a partnership with SPEC in which an experienced garden educator delivers lessons to the classrooms. This grant would allow the continuity of the school garden program.

Perkins Academy

Perkins garden has been successful over the past four years, having inherited tools from a previous garden and as the recipient of generosity and support of the school community. However our main growing area, an In Ground garden space of about 2,000 square feet, has never been amended. We have been gardening in this area through very wet springs and very hot dry August weather for 3 of the past four years. The soil supported turf grass and is not very loose or conducive to growing strong, productive plants.

Red Lion Christian Academy

The goals of the garden program are: to improve classroom learning by providing a fun, hands-on outdoor experience that offers real world examples of math and science; to foster awareness of the students’ footprint on the world; to enhance student eating habits and overall health by providing healthy snack options that may be prepared at school; and to build the students’ self-esteem and sense of achievement. In addition, this school-wide project fosters community and collaboration within the school and teaches the students to look beyond themselves in support of their local community.

General Brock Elementary

The school garden provides a green space in a very built up area of the city; increases access to healthy, fresh, local food; and provides a space for caregivers and children to engage in a healthy manner. The school garden has been the focal point for food, garden, and environmental-focused education for the past several years, mainly through a partnership with SPEC in which an experienced garden educator delivers lessons to the classrooms.

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